Quotes about thinking

'''"It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.

Keep on thinking. Keep your thinking close to the ground, where it belongs. Don’t ever trade your liberty for another man’s offer to do your thinking and make your mistakes for you.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.

The body needs many different foods to remain healthy. And the mind needs many different ideas to remain sharp. Wouldn’t you agree?

I am never not cross-referencing the trees with the forests, and it can be a very exhausting way to engage – but I wouldn’t change it for the world, because I believe communities need thinkers like me.

Harry Dresden: Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.

Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed.

That we may accept a limitation on our actions but never, under no circumstances, must we accept restriction on our thinking.

Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest scientific achievements.

Thoughts aren’t personal. They just appear, like raindrops. Would you argue with a raindrop?

The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.